Word: axelrod
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Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election between Sept. 15 and Sept. 26, Obama Campaign Chief Strategist David Axelrod told a full house at the Institute of Politics yesterday...
...Axelrod said that voters needed to be reassured that Obama represented “safe change,” and that the collapse of the investment bank Lehman Brothers on Sept. 15, with the first presidential debate on the horizon, provided an opportunity...
...manner in which Obama handled that crisis...answered that question for many voters,” Axelrod said...
...Obviously, he won, but I had concerns about it ... I was concerned about whether he was ready for that." - David Axelrod, pre-eminent Illinois strategist and Obama adviser, on his reluctance to get behind Blagojevich's 2002 gubernatorial campaign, The New Yorker, July...
...course, Chicago roots aren't always enough for a candidate, as Adlai Stevenson proved twice. But for now, Republicans might need to look for a new line of attack. With Obama on his way to the White House, the Axelrod-Emanuel-Podesta trio by his side and Illinois Senator Dick Durbin the new center of influence in the U.S. Senate, Chicago Democrat appears to be a winning label...